So yeah one hypothesis is there was an advanced pre-historic culture that's now buried under the Persian Gulf and the fairly rapid filling of the Persian Gulf d

So yeah one hypothesis is there was an advanced pre-historic culture that's now buried under the Persian Gulf and the fairly rapid filling of the Persian Gulf dislocated and drove dissemination of culture and common mythological elements we see in many cultures today in all directions. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/657397?seq=1 https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/657397?seq=1